How do I know if trading cards & comic books are worth anything & if so how do I sell them & not get robbed $?
I have football, racing, basketball, hockey, Starwars (Game), baseball, Spawn, Goosebumps, Flintstones, Kodak Olympic, Primates theme Deck for Magic: The Gathering, cards all bought in the mid 1990’s still new and a whole box of older baseball cards that show some age I bought at a yard sale in 2000. I also have comic books bought in the early to mid 1990’s: Spawn, Avenger, Superman, Spiderman, X-Men, Power Rangers, Beauty and the Beast, The Crusaders, Prophet, Avengelyne, X-Files all still new in plastic bags. I have one of the X-men comics that was sold in an auction for $51,000; but I guess the trick is finding someone who is interested…
Use completed items listings on Ebay. Be sure to focus on items that actually sold, not listings that no one bid on.
They were neither of them party animals, but this one was unavoidable.
“After all, luv, it’s a promotion,” John pointed out. “Can’t be standoffish.”
“Oh, I know, dear,” Liz agreed. “We’ve got to fly the flag for this one.”
They dressed, John in his tuxedo, Liz in an off-the-shoulder, full length gown of midnight blue. Her blonde, shoulder length hair set the dress off to perfection. She was tall, nearly John’s height and as straight as an arrow.
“God, you look beautiful,” he breathed. “Positively regal.”
“Don’t look so bad yourself, darling,” she said, looking him up and down. “Let’s go and knock their socks off.” She smiled as he kissed her gently on the cheek. “Watch my make-up, lover boy.”
“I don’t suppose there’s time – “
“No, there isn’t,” she chuckled, tapping the end of his nose with a long forefinger. He held the car door for her and helped her arrange her dress. He settled himself in the driver’s seat and away they went.
The party was being held at the Managing Director’s palatial residence on the edge of town. A long, tree lined driveway led to an elliptical parking area, in the middle of which was a huge flowerbed, where a number of cars were already parked. John drove in carefully and stopped his car, taking care not to block anyone in.
The inside of the house was magnificent. A huge hallway, to the left of which was a great, sweeping, staircase and straight in front of them they could see the ballroom where the party was being held. They were announced;
“Mr and Mrs. John Reader.”
The place was by no means full yet, and a few couples turned and looked curiously at the newcomers. John and Liz smiled what they hoped were welcoming smiles and mingled with the rest of the guests. A white coated waiter appeared as if by magic at their side, proffering a tray of tulip glasses filled with champagne.
“Come on, love,” John murmured to Liz. “Better go and meet the boss man.”
The Managing Director proved to be tall and distinguished, balding, with grey hair at the temples over which he had a habit of running his hands. His wife was a short, round lady, with a kind face that had obviously once been beautiful. They paid their respects, the Managing Director complimented John on his promotion and said a few nice things to Liz. Then, they mingled.
John became aware of a particularly beautiful woman eying him from across the room. She wore a sarong type of dress, slit to the hip, offering the occasional glimpse of peach coloured thigh. Slowly, languorously, with rippling cat-like movements she made her way over to John.
“It’s a lovely night.” Her voice was husky, smokey.
“Yes-yes, isn’t it?” John stammered. She took his arm.
“Come. Let’s have a walk in the garden.”
As if in a dream, he allowed her to lead him out onto the patio and thence down the steps onto the soft grass.
“But my wife–”
“Is fine,” that husky voice murmured in his ear. “She’s talking to another couple. Come.”
He felt as though he were driving a car, trying to stop, but the brakes weren’t working.
He allowed himself to be led to a summer house. As soon as they were inside, she wrapped her arms about him, found his lips with her own, and set him on fire. Time didn’t exist. Her passion enveloped him. He felt himself falling, falling — A sudden gasp behind him.
“John. What-why-oh my God!”
He flung the woman from him. She flitted out of the door. Liz stood there, her face in her hands. John re-arranged himself quickly, clumsily, guilt washing over him.
The drive home was accomplished in rigid silence. Even when they arrived at the house, no words were exchanged. Liz threw him a couple of blankets and he spent the night on the sofa. He didn’t turn the drawing room light on. He was afraid of catching sight of himself.
He lay in the blessed darkness, his eyes wide open, guilt twisting his stomach like a great serpent.
Sleep came at about 5 o’clock, a fitful, dream-filled state. He was jerked awake by a sudden thud. Liz stood over him, and he could see her suitcase in the hall.
“I’m going to Mum and Dad.” Her voice was toneless, empty.
He swung off the sofa and went to embrace her, but she backed away.
“Why, John? My God, aren’t I enough for you?”
“Darling, of course you are. Liz, you know how much I love you. I–”
“Yes. I saw how much last night.” She turned, picked up her suitcase and left the house. He’d been caught ‘in flagrante delicto’. God, he wanted her so desperately, wanted the previous night to simply vanish. But of course it wouldn’t. How was he to make up with her?
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On NVidia website it says that 9600GSO needs a system with a min of 400W of power. A person from my previous question said that I should get a PSU that gives around 500W, if thinking will one that gives 425W do the trick? And what is the advantage of getting a more powerful PSU apart from making it easier to add more stuff to the PC later?
Only thing I do on this PC is game, and a small amount of overclocking. PC is minimalistic, Q6600 processor, ASUS EN9600GSO CUDA MAGIC/HTDP 512MB PCI-E gfx Card that I’m going to get, 1 DVD drive, 2GB DDR2, 1 320gb Hard-Disk, one video-in card that I never ever used, no fans except from CPU one and GFX one.
So is there a point getting a 500W power supply or will 425W do the trick just as well?
That “400w” number is a worst-case overestimation because they have no way of knowing what components are in your system.
At the same specs page for the 9600GSO at nVidia you saw, it also tells you the maximum card power– 90 watts. That’s how much power the card itself actually uses.
90 watts / 12 volts = 7.5 amps on the +12V rail.
Look at your PSU’s label and see how many amps its +12V rail can provide. If it can give you at least 20 amps (should be enough for your 9600GSO and the rest of your system), it should work just fine.
The PSU wattage means little. The +12V amps are more important because that’s where your components get most of their power from.
Hell, I can run TWO 9600GSOs in SLI on my system with my 400W Corsair power supply– My Corsair 400W has 30 amps on its +12V.
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I was just playing Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers on Xbox Live and I played the level 4 challenge. I saw something interesting that could help me out at my local FNM matches
There were two Megrim enchantments out that stated: “Whenever an opponent discards a card, Megrim deals 2 damage to that player.”
Whenever the opponents creature was destroyed, the game counted it as a discard. Is this correct?
Also, I want to use Tome Scour in conjunction with Megrim, it states: “Target player puts the top five cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard”
Since the graveyard is also referred to as the discard pile, is this a method of discarding as well?
If the answers posted are found in the advanced rulebook as a source, could the rule be listed as well?
Thank you!
When you discard something, it has to go from a player’s hand into their graveyard. The game is wrong in that it counts anything going to the graveyard is discard.
When a card is put into a graveyard from a player’s library, it is not discarding.
Discard happens when a spell or ability says to take a card from their hand and put it into their graveyard. It also happens at the end of a player’s turn when they have more than the maximum allowed number of cards in their hand. There are different cards that can change the number. Spellbook and Library of Leng gives you no maximum hand size. Thought Nibbler, Eater, and Devourer reduces your maximum hand size by 2, 3, and 4, respectively.
701.7a To discard a card, move it from its owner’s hand to that player’s graveyard.
Steve
Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers Challenge Guide
